IMDEA Energy, awarded at SolarPACES 2022 for the development of a sustainable aviation fuel technology
On the closing day of the SolarPACES 2022 Conference, SolarPACES Chairman Gilles Flamant presented the award to Dr. Christoph Falter, now at Synhelion, on behalf of Bauhaus-Luftfahrt, Dr. Johannes Grobbel, on behalf of DLR, Dr. Alon Lidor, on behalf of ETH Zurich, and Dr. Charles-Alexis Asselineau, on behalf of IMDEA Energia, for the Sun-to-Liquid project. Alon Lidor, on behalf of ETH Zurich, and Dr. Charles-Alexis Asselineau, on behalf of IMDEA Energia, for the Sun-to-Liquid project; the development of a solar-powered jet fuel technology for the aviation industry.
This is a new award for this project, which last year was recognised with the ‘Energy Globe World Award 2021’, one of the world’s most renowned environmental awards organised by the independent Austrian Energy Globe Foundation, and with the ‘National Energy Globe Award Spain 2021’, in recognition of the most outstanding environmental project in Spain.
Together with IMDEA Energía, the SUN-to-LIQUID consortium includes other research centres and companies involved in the thermochemical production of solar fuels, such as Bauhaus Luftfahrt e.V., ETH Zurich, DLR, Abengoa, ARTTIC and HyGear.
